The British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd (BBC), likes to distance itself from the tv licence; though it is the television licensing authority in the UK.
To maintain this distance, the BBC, have concocted "TV Licensing". "TV Licensing" is a trademarked umbrella trading name under the cover of which various contractors under the BBC "TV Licensing" contract operate.

Saturday, 4 March 2017

The title of our
blog post is “A Mockery”.It is
the first in a series of that title.It
is a progress report.A summing up of 53
years opposition to the BBC TV licence fee and its enforcement.TV Licensing Watch will try to bring together
many strands to make a strong thread to set out the BBC sanctioned structured
mockery of civil liberties, investigatory powersand judicial process that the BBC TV licence fee
and its enforcement has become.Once
again, TV Licensing Watch, expresses its everlasting “gratitude” to Capita BBC
TV Licensing™’s , Ian Doyle for some of the source material in this blog post.

Since its
introduction in 1946, the BBC TV licence fee has from the very start had
elements of absurdity.In the course of
70 plus years the absurdity has grown and grown and grown to such an extent that
now absurdity is so magnified that BBC TV licence fee has become a structured
mockery in which the BBC itself has become a complete and utter mockery.

Watchkeeper of Watchkeeper’s Log sagely noted: "It's
a fact! It seems to me it's the only "crime" where the
"criminal" provides the evidence for conviction and the prosecution
has no idea whether an offence was committed at all, but they'll take the
defendant's word for it."

Which became this: “BBC
TV licence evasion, a "crime" so absurd prosecutor and court can't
prove it took place so they take a defendant's word for it” one of our best
liked Tweets on our Twitter feed.During
the covert Daily Mail video of the TV Licensing Field Sales Officer job
interview, Capita BBC TV Licensing™’s, Ian Doyle, unwittingly confirmed it.

So from where does the absurdity, the mockery derive?

TV Licensing
Watch will start with the absurdity of the alleged “crime” created by the introduction
of the BBC TV licence fee in 1946.It is
a “crime” without proof.It is a “crime”
reliant upon following components:

absence
of a valid BBC TV licence on record for an address

possessing
TV receiving equipment at an address

existence
of an appropriate person to interview at an address

existence
of a prosecution statement volunteered by an appropriate person interviewed at
an address

Possessing audio-visual/TV receiving equipment at an
address without a valid BBC TV licence is not unlawful. This was thoroughly
tested in “Rudd v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry” in which the word
“use” as in “use of TV receiving equipment” was thoroughly tested in respect of
the existence of unlicensed audio-visual/TV receiving equipment at an address.“use” of audio-visual/TV receiving equipment with
“capability” to receive for non-licensable purposes in absence of a valid BBC
TV licence recorded for an address is not unlawful. “Rudd v Secretary of State”
makes clear that testing unlicensed audio-visual/TV receiving equipment with
“capability” to receive in absence of a valid BBC TV licence recorded for an
address and receiving live signal is not proof that the aforementioned
unlicensed audio-visual/TV receiving equipment has been “used” and is in “use”
to habitually receive live signal; therefore actual “use” has to be proven
beyond reasonable doubt.If Ian Doyle’s
involuntary “you’ve got a TV, so, you’ve got the capability” bragging is to be
believed, such considerations do not seem be of any concern to Capita BBC TV
Licensing™.

Eyeball prints on TV screens?The absurdity here is that because of “Rudd v
Secretary of State the legislation underpinning the BBC TV licence has actually
created a “crime” for which proof can never exist; it seems to be a “crime” established
without "beyond reasonable doubt", a “crime” of suspicion alone.It is therefore a matter of confession alone.
Absurd, it is a mockery.

Which is where, as Capita BBC TV Licensing™’s, Ian Doyle,
confirmed, the existence of an
appropriate person to trick, exploit and interview at an unlicensed address
comes in handy.For without the
existence of an appropriate person to interview at an unlicensed address there
is no confession.So, it was very
interesting to hear Capita BBC TV Licensing™’s, Ian Doyle brag about exploiting
the “first 40 seconds” of conversation to garner an involuntary confession to
write as down as “proof” on TVL178 Record of Interview form before formal PACE caution
is actually administered.A TVL178
Record of Interview form upon which to create or fabricate a prosecution statement to
present to court for a summons to be issued and presented as proof of habitual
“use” which would otherwise be nonexistent.Absurd, it is a mockery.

However, the existence
of a prosecution statement volunteered by an exploited appropriate person
interviewed at an unlicensed address is not actual proof that unlicensed
audio-visual/TV receiving equipment has been and is in “use” for licensable purposes.The existence of a prosecution statement
merely proves that an appropriate person at an unlicensed addressed cooperated
in the completion of a TVL178 Record of Interview form.However, because of “Rudd v Secretary of
State” it still does not prove habitual “use” of unlicensed audio-visual/TV
receiving equipment for licensable
purposes at an address for which no valid BBC TV licence is on record. On these bases people are being
prosecuted.Absurd, it is a
mockery.

Are you still
with TV Licensing Watch?It has got very
circular has not it?Absurdly
circular?A circle of mockery?TV Licensing Watch certainly believes so and
so do a great many people, both within the anti-licence fee movement and
without.TV Licensing Watch has often
speculated that if Joseph Heller had been aware of it he would have included it
in “Catch #22”.

What has been described and been confirmed by
Capita BBC TV Licensing™s, Ian Doyle, is the ruthless exploitation of UK courts
and judicial system for systemised and optimised processes of structured speculative prosecutions carried out for and on behalf of the BBC with serial
Government and BBC connivance and collusion coupled with Capita BBC TV Licensing™'s insatiable profit motive.Serial Government and BBC connivance and collusion tarted up, covered up
with infrequent phoney consultation exercises such as “Future of the BBC”
inquiry, BBC Charter Renewal and Perry’s “Review into TV licence Enforcement” to
bolster a constantly diminishing popular consensus in support of BBC TV licence
fee.

When the
absurdity is compounded, as it is now, with the profit motivated “commercial
approach” with “financial incentives”, as it has been since 2002, with the
awarding of a contract for the administration and enforcement of BBC TV licence
fee to Capita Business Services, the BBC TV licence fee and its enforcement has
indeed become absurd, a mockery.The
consequence is that since the 1946 introduction of the BBC TV licence fee it is
safe to deduce that millions of lives have been ruined and will continue to be
ruined for as long as BBC TV licence fee exists. For every life ruined there is
an equal number of anti-TV licence fee activists created.

The
value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove
invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours
perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the
BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has
the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings
in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video
cameras.

For
people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV
Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face
to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ and have
received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law
practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual
situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during
the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record
of Interview self incrimination form.

Thursday, 2 March 2017

For this blog
post, TV Licensing Watch, returns to why people who have no BBC TV licence and
no legal need of a BBC TV licence should never, ever talk to Capita BBC TV
Licensing™.Allow us to remind you that,
TV licensing, in common with just about every other UK licensing regime we can
think of, there is absolutely no legal obligation for people to inform Capita
BBC TV Licensing™ that a BBC TV licence is not needed.A response in Parliament by Culture, Media
and Sport Minister of State, Matthew Hancock, confirmed it.Though for some strange reason, the BBC’s TV
licence administration and enforcement contractor, Capita, fails to publicise
this basic information.

So, having
digressed, back to the subject, why people should never, ever talk to Capita
BBC TV Licensing™.This blog post is
going to be somewhat different in that TV Licensing Watch is not going explain
why people should never, ever talk to Capita BBC TV Licensing™.It is Capita BBC TV Licensing™ who
are going to explain why people should never, ever talk to Capita BBC TV
Licensing™.The person who will be doing
the explaining is none other than Capita BBC TV Licensing™’s hapless, Ian Doyle.Yes, the same, Ian Doyle, involved in Capita BBC TV
Licensing™’s vexatious pursuit of Michael Shakespeare.

TV Licensing
Watch calls it Ian Doyle’s Big Big Bragfest.The educational resource, the Daily Mail’s covert video of the TV
Licensing™ Field Sales Officer job interview conducted by, Ian Doyle, in which,
Doyle went overboard overselling the job to the point of outright bragging to a
candidate who turned out to be an undercover reporter for the Daily Mail.So, why you should never, ever talk to
Capita BBC TV Licensing™ by Ian Doyle, Capita BBC TV Licensing™.Over to you, Mr Ian Doyle.

Compelling No
Licence Needed TV viewing was it not?

So, do you or
anybody else think that Capita BBC TV Licensing™ complied with the “enhance the public acceptability of the
licence fee”requirement spelled
out in the TV Licensing Service Provision Agreement?

No?

Thought not.

We can all agree then that, arguably, the BBC TV licence
fee is no longer acceptable to the public and further, that Capita BBC TV
Licensing™’s resort to dirty tricks, enforcement scams and abuses of process is
confirmation that the BBC TV licence fee is no longer acceptable to the public. It seems however that the BBC, would prefer to be funded by dirty tactics enforcement and judicial coercion rather than voluntary subscription. That, to say the least, is a very strange preference for a media organisation always bragging about how much it needs the support of the public it judicially persecutes plus the incongruity of bragging how popular it is.

In fact, when you come to think about it, these videos make a complete and utter mockery of the Perry Review into TV Licence Enforcement. How the white collar bullies at Crapita BBC TV Licensing™ must have laughed and laughed and laughed at Perry's findings and recommendations contained in the report: but that's a whole different blog post.

Image: Daily Mail Videos: Daily Mail

The
value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove
invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours
perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the
BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has
the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business
Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings
in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video
cameras.

For
people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV
Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face
to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have
received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law
practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual
situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during
the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record
of Interview self incrimination form.

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

TV Licensing
Watch receive quite a number of comments about how infrequently we
publish. It’s true, we cannot deny
it. We are more than happy to play second
fiddle to TV Licensing Blog.

However, this
week's front page expose with supporting video evidence by the Daily Mail, of the disgusting, bullying con
artist tactics deployed by the BBC’s prime TV Licensing™ administration and
enforcement contractor, Capita Business Services Ltd, obliges us to add our two
penn’orth.

Well, thank you,
Daily Mail, you had the resources to do what you did which we do not have and
the general public in the UK owes theDaily Mail, something of a debt of
gratitude. It is also very satisfying to
see that allegations repeatedly made by us and many others in the anti-licence
fee movement for over a decade being confirmed with firm proof. What took you so long, Daily Mail?

Capita were
awarded the contract for BBC TV Licensing™ (now Capita TV Licensing™; please
note that) in 2002. Capita have been administering and enforcing the BBC TV
licence fee for 15 years. Yes, 15 years!
A 2 year extension of the BBC TV licence fee administration and enforcement
contract has been recently, on the nod seemingly, awarded to Capita. It is expected that Capita will continue to
administer and enforce the BBC TV licence fee until 2027, the anticipated
expiry of BBC Royal Charter, also seemingly awarded on the nod after the one of
the dodgiest BBC Charter renewal consultations in public service history.

If Capita retain
BBC TV licence fee administration and enforcement contract until 2027, that
will be a total of 25 years and Capita are expected to accrue up to £1.55 billion, plus
the fringe benefits of 25 years worth of KPI related bonuses and commissions, courts
awarded prosecution costs and compensation, unpaid fines’ inflated bailiff
collection fees through Capita owned Akinika, transaction fees, taxpayer
subsidised (£66.54 per prosecution; source: MoJ/HMCTS) zero courts fee access to
magistrates courts in the UK and the list could go on.

A casual perusal
of the titles TV Licensing Blog since 2008 or our blog since 2012 should be
sufficient to convince any sensible person that from the very start, Capita’s operation
of BBC TV licence fee administration and enforcement seems to have been and is
riddled with Capita “canny” profit boosting enforcement and transaction scams
and abuses, not least of which is the direct linkage between doorstep sales of
TV licences, prosecution statements and the payments of bonus commissions. An outlawed 18th century Thief-taker model of law enforcement.

As
a participant in the anti-licence fee movement, TV Licensing Watch, were not
aware of that but suspected it since we blogged “Harassment: A BBC Formula”
and we thank the, Daily Mail, for confirming our suspicions. That is before there is any mention of crooked
Capita BBC TV Licensing™ field sales and enforcement staff awarding themselves
unofficial bonuses and commissions by various transaction and prosecution
statement falsification frauds.

The BBC, BBC TV Licensing Management Team, BBC Monitoring, CSC, BBC’s lawyers and its various TV Licensing™
contractor hangers on have been obsessively monitoring every part of the
anti-licence movement they know of and have access to. The BBC first awarded BBC TV licence fee
administration and enforcement contract to Capita in 2002 and has renewed that
contract with Capita every fifth year since.
BBC and Capita have been together 15 years and the BBC do not know what misdeeds
their prime TV licence fee administration and enforcement contractor have done and are doing?
In 15 years! 15 years of connivance and collusion between BBC and Capita. In 15 years obsessively monitoring the anti-licence fee movement! 15 years of complaints by people in the UK who repeatedly write to BBC Director General "Phoney" Tony Hall. It's interesting to note that Hall's complaints handling technique seems to consist entirely of redirecting complaints about Capita directly to Capita seemingly unrecorded and unread. A staggering lack of enquiring corporate nous and initiative in a corporate leader, to say the least.

The Daily Mail,
part of the legacy mainstream media have confirmed what the anti-licence fee
movement have said all along. To quote, Watchkeeper, if you are reading this
Watchkeeper, and we hope you are, here’s a reminder of a Watchkeeper’s Log prescient
blog title “BBC and Capita: Rogue organisations not fit for purpose”.

Image credit: Daily Mail

The
value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove
invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours
perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the
BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has
the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business
Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings
in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video
cameras.

For
people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV
Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face
to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have
received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law
practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual
situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during
the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record
of Interview self incrimination form.